Northern Lights or Secret Lives of Cows? Check out the program of the Night of Science 2025

The Night of Science is celebrated on Thursday the 9th of January 2025. The block party for science and research spreads out all over Helsinki with almost 50 different events.

What kind of events would you like to participate into during the Night of Science? Are there some themes that you are specially interested in? Are you looking for program for adults or children?

The program of the Night of Science 2025 is published. You will find the full program from the program page where you are able to filter the selection based on language, target group, theme or online/on-site events. Below you will find all of the events in English.

Workshops and quizzes

These workshops are available in multiple languages including English. The quiz about the secret lives of cows is only in English.

• From Solar storms to Aurora
• Exciting World of Geosciences, Geography and Space Technology
• Explore the Future of Materials Science
• Cows Need Their Beauty Sleep – Insights into the Secret Lives of Cows

Screenings

The movie screenings of the Night of Science are organized at the Hanaholmen cultural center and at the Cinema Orion.

• The Magic of the Northern Lights
• Sammy Baloji: Aequare. The Future That Never Was (2023)

Lectures and discussions

The lectures and discussions in English can be found below. 

• Are Molecules the Solution to More Sustainable Electronics?
• Hidden Urban Experiences: Alternative Tours of Helsinki
• Perspectives from the History of Theology
• Lives as Art, Art as Resistance
• Louis Braille – 200 years of heritage
• Wonders of Diversity, Physics, Ecology and Sustainability!